FORBES, Alexander 2nd of Inverernan ^{2 3}

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  General Notes:

"FORBES
ALEXANDER
JOHN FORBES/
M
00/00/1710
240 10 / 238
STRATHDON AND CORGARFF"

from Births and Baptisms ³

Alexander married Jean ALEXANDER, daughter of Alexander ALEXANDER of Auchmull and Jackstoun, Bailie in Aberdeen and Helen DOUGLASS, by 1733.^{1 2} (Jean ALEXANDER was born about 1713.)

  Marriage Notes:

"Black Jock was the eldest son of Skellater by a second marriage ; and being out in the rebellion, was taken prisoner, and died at Carlisle the night before the day on which he was to have been executed. His son .... succeeded to Inverernan, and married Jean, daughter of Alexander Alexander of Auchmull, a bailie in Aberdeen. Their eldest son, who died unmarried, made the entail of Inverernan, and was succeeded by his next brother, Alex. Forbes"

from Epitaphs and Inscriptions




"Alexander (Forbes), 2nd Laird of Inverernan, married in 1733 Margaret (see Note) Alexander, daughter of the Laird of Auchmull, baillie of Aberdeen, and had : John, his heir, born 1739. Alexander, who succeeded John. Charles, born 1748, student of Divinity, died 1771. Helen, married Alexander Mitchell, merchant in Aberdeen, and five others died unmarried, Janet, Agnes, Jean, Isabel and Ann."

from House of Forbes

Note: Elsewhere Alexander's wife is named as Jean, though she may have had both names. ^{1 2}